July DT Challenge 2 - Navy Paper

Pretty busy, huh?  For this Design Team challenge, we were asked to start with navy grid paper and Tami's Page Pattern 60.  I got a little "busy" from there!  :)

I had saved this "Wired" magazine cover since July 2011 because it just spoke to me.  I knew I had to find SOME use for it.  Back in the good old days when I first started scrapbooking 20 years ago, there weren't a lot of scrapbook supplies so I often cut up old magazines. 

When my niece, Samantha, and I spent the night at COSI in Columbus, Ohio in February 2012, I had my answer for what to do with this cover!  COSI stands for Center of Science and Industry.  It is a FABULOUS hands-on type children's museum. 

We had a blast in the Gadgets exhibit that featured all the gears and pulleys and, there it was, in the middle of all those gears and cogs, a big brain!  Just the inspiration I needed!  :)

To meet the additional requirements for this challenge, I used some die-cut and punched out gears to create doodling around the margins of my paper and photos using metallic markers in silver and gold.

For my title, I took a very basic custom die-cut that I bought at Red Letter Journals in Grove City, OH, and fancied it up by adding layers of cardstock gears, as well as some brads from Eyelet Outlet.